Law with Criminal Investigation

Learn how to investigate crimes and bring offenders to justice with this innovative degree that combines law and policing.

You’ll get hands-on using our simulation spaces, analysing crime scenes, interviewing witnesses and presenting cases in court. It will give you an insight into how different professionals work together within the criminal justice system.

The course will also give you a firm grounding in many other aspects of law, so you can explore a wide variety of career options. Other practical opportunities include the chance to help real clients in our Legal Advice Clinic.

Assessments are also based on real-world scenarios and could include delivering a simulated mediation session and giving evidence in our courtroom.

As the course is taught by specialist law and criminal investigation teams, you’ll gain lots of transferable skills. There will be input from other professionals as well, such as local lawyers and representatives from the police, prison and probation services.

Once you graduate, you can progress with confidence onto the next stage of qualification to become a barrister, solicitor or CILEX lawyer.

On successful completion of study, we will issue the following award: LLB (Hons) Law with Criminal Investigation

Course Modules

Year One Core: Constitutional Law; Contract Law; English Legal System; Introduction to Investigation; Legal Skills; Tort Law

Year Two Core: Administrative Law; Criminal Law; European Union Law; Law of Trusts and Equitable Remedies; Practical Methods of Criminal Investigation; Property Law

Year Three Core: Intelligence Led Policing and Major Crime Investigation; Policing and Society
Year Three Optional: Alternative Dispute Resolution (Adr); Company Law; Contemporary Developments in Criminal Law; Cyber Law & Artificial Intelligence; Dissertation; Employment Law; Family Law; Human Rights; International Human Rights; Law of Evidence; Legal Advice Clinic; Mooting; Principles of International Law; Street Law

Assessments in both subjects are designed to provide meaningful, authentic opportunities for students to develop skills and knowledge, for example advising a client in a simulated Property Law advice session or giving evidence about a criminal investigation in one of the mock courtrooms for the module Practical Methods of Investigation. For students who opt for the Legal Advice Clinic module at Level 6, these simulations culminate in real world experiences of giving legal advice to clients from the local community.

At all stages of the programme, students are required to use technology effectively in the research, preparation and submission of assessments. The university library gives access to a wide range of physical and digital resources for the study of both Law and Criminal Investigation. In addition, digital copies of textbooks for Law are available electronically through the OUP Law Trove portal.This allows lecturers to set readings across a wider range of student texts from introductory to more advanced, whilst also reducing the financial burden on students who may choose not to buy print copies.